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'''Jessie's Dustox''' (Japanese: '''ムサシのドクケイル''' ''Musashi's Dokucale'') was the second [[Pokémon]] caught by [[Jessie]] of [[Team Rocket]] during her travels through [[Hoenn]]. Dustox [[evolve]]d from {{p|Cascoon}} and before that, {{p|Wurmple}}. Its voice actress in Japanese was 西村ちなみ ''[[Chinami Nishimura]]'' (''[[Rikako Aikawa]]'' during her leave), and its English voice actresses are [[Amy Birnbaum]] ([[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] dub) and [[Michele Knotz]] ({{PUSA}} dub).

Jessie caught Wurmple in the episode ''[[AG014|All in a Day's Wurmple]]'', as did {{an|May}}. Several episodes later, in ''[[AG021|Which Wurmple's Which?]]'', both Wurmple were temporarily switched, but were returned to their proper {{pkmn|trainer}}s by the episode's end. In the episode ''[[AG024|A Corphish Out of Water]]'', Jessie's Wurmple evolved into Cascoon while May's evolved into {{p|Silcoon}}; Jessie believed hers was a Silcoon as well. Four episodes later, in ''[[AG028|Seeing is Believing]]'', Jessie's Cascoon evolved into {{p|Dustox}}, soon after May's Silcoon evolved into {{TP|May|Beautifly}}. While Jessie was at first disappointed that she did not have a Beautifly, she soon came to adore her new Dustox (in the Japanese version, she called it ''Dokucale-chan'' on more than one occasion). In the English dub, Jessie has called it ''Dustox-Dear'', and when she throws its [[Poké Ball]], she has also called it "my dear Dustox".

Dustox was also Jessie's secondary [[Pokémon battle|battling Pokémon]]. It was usually used alongside {{TP|Jessie|Seviper}}, but it had also been used alone. It appeared to be fairly powerful, but as Team Rocket are the villains, it was usually defeated.

In the episode ''[[AG080|That's Just Swellow]]'', [[James]] used Dustox as his Pokémon in a [[PokéRinger]] competition. Dustox defeated May's Beautifly in the competition, but it eventually succumbed to a last-minute defeat when {{Ash}}'s {{p|Taillow}} evolved into a {{AP|Swellow}}.